Mean Quotes

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

I'm a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like "Christian."

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.

The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

I take my job seriously, which means I'm going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.

To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.

The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.